Posts tagged with "social media"

Cyprus included in Europol competition to track down fugitives Crime

Cyprus included in Europol competition to track down fugitives

July 11th, 2018   Europol will launch a public ‘competition’ on Thursday morning to help them catch Europe’s most-wanted fugitives, among them one wanted by Cypriot authorities, by spreading their profiles across social media. The idea is that increasing the fugitives’ visibility will increase their chances of capture. Taking its...
Messages and hashtags: Thai cave rescue dominates social media World

Messages and hashtags: Thai cave rescue dominates social media

July 11th, 2018 Audiences around the world cheered the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand with messages of support as the saga generated suggestions of help, prayers and -- finally -- expressions of relief. People turned to television, news sites and social media to keep up with the fate of the "Wild Boar" soccer team...
How to ‘fix’ social media without censorship Guest Columnist

How to ‘fix’ social media without censorship

June 24th, 2018 By David Kaye The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal may have changed the way millions of people perceive the risks to privacy when they go online. But it could have obscured an equally profound digital age debate: widespread resistance to internet companies’ role as the global speech police of the digital age. The future of free...
Government warns of fake Anastasiades accounts on social media Cyprus

Government warns of fake Anastasiades accounts on social media

May 30th, 2018 The government warned on Wednesday that in recent days accounts have appeared on social media under the name of President Nicos Anastasiades that are fake. “These accounts have nothing to do with the President of the Republic or the government,” a brief announcement said. In some cases, it added, the appropriated the status of...
Police chief rebukes media for their reporting of double murder Crime

Police chief rebukes media for their reporting of double murder

May 2nd, 2018   The double murder in Nicosia some two weeks ago is on the way to being resolved, the chief of police said on Wednesday, before criticising the misleading way the brutal killings had been reported on mainstream and social media websites. “To put it bluntly, I think this incident should concern us all in relation with the...
Britain to regulate young people's use of social media Tech & Science

Britain to regulate young people's use of social media

April 23rd, 2018 Britain's health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they do more to protect young people using their services. Hunt said the groups were "turning a blind eye" to the effect social media had on children's well-being - an accusation that comes as Facebook and others face heightened...
Personal data chief warns about social media Cyprus

Personal data chief warns about social media

April 13th, 2018 Personal data commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Friday that people’s information should also be safeguarded on social media where serious violations have been detected recently. “This must stop at some point, hence the quite hefty fines my office has imposed recently in particular cases,” she told the Cyprus News...
EU tells Facebook: Sorry simply is not enough Tech & Science

EU tells Facebook: Sorry simply is not enough

April 12th, 2018 European Union privacy watchdogs will look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political purposes following the scandal engulfing Facebook Inc. after data from nearly 87 million users was improperly accessed. "A multi-billion dollar social media platform saying it is sorry simply is not...
US visa applicants to be asked for social media history Americas

US visa applicants to be asked for social media history

March 30th, 2018 The US government plans to collect social media history from nearly everyone who seeks entry into the United States, State Department proposals showed on Friday as part of President Donald Trump's policy of "extreme vetting." Most immigrant and non-immigrant visa applicants - about 14.7 million people - will be asked to list on a...
Tech giant Facebook in new bother over app Tech & Science

Tech giant Facebook in new bother over app

March 28th, 2018 Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company. The U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California seeks status as a class action...
The art of predicting - a human vs machine battle? Tech & Science

The art of predicting - a human vs machine battle?

March 27th, 2018 Forecasting is a tricky business, but Nesta isn’t backing down from the human-versus-machine battle. Forecasting is a fool’s errand, so why we do fallible humans persist in trying to peer into an uncertain future, especially when machines are outpacing us on so many other predictive tasks? People who should have known much better...
Sites listing traffic radar spots highly dangerous say police Cyprus

Sites listing traffic radar spots highly dangerous say police

February 7th, 2018 Police on their Facebook page have condemned online sites where people can post and find police traffic radar detection locations, saying that sending out such messages endangers people’s lives. In their Facebook comment on Wednesday they gave the example of one Matheos S., who at some point posted the warning “Blue Smurfs near...
Turkey detains 300 people over criticism of Syrian offensive Turkey

Turkey detains 300 people over criticism of Syrian offensive

January 29th, 2018 Turkey has detained more than 300 people for social media posts criticising its military offensive in Syria, the government said on Monday, a day after President Tayyip Erdogan accused doctors who opposed the campaign of betrayal. Since launching its 10-day-old air and ground offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria's...
Facebook to prioritize 'trustworthy' news based on surveys Tech & Science

Facebook to prioritize 'trustworthy' news based on surveys

January 22nd, 2018 Facebook Inc will prioritize "trustworthy" news in its feed of social media posts, using member surveys to identify high-quality outlets and fight sensationalism and misinformation, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday. The company, which has more than 2 billion monthly users, said its members, not experts or Facebook...
"Fake news" crutch used by SE Asian leaders to control media Tech & Science

"Fake news" crutch used by SE Asian leaders to control media

January 22nd, 2018 Governments across Southeast Asia have a history of using laws and the judiciary to curb press freedoms - now, they have found a handy crutch to lean on as they intensify clampdowns: U.S. President Donald Trump's "fake news" mantra. Most worrying to media rights advocates is that several countries are promoting new legislation or...
Facebook to emphasize friends, not news, in series of changes Tech & Science

Facebook to emphasize friends, not news, in series of changes

January 12th, 2018 Facebook Inc on Thursday began to change the way it filters posts and videos on its centerpiece News Feed, the start of what Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said would be a series of changes in the design of the world's largest social network. Zuckerberg, in a sweeping post on Facebook, said the company would change the filter for the...
Obama warns society being splintered by online biases (Update) Americas

Obama warns society being splintered by online biases (Update)

December 27th, 2017 Former US president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their own biases. "All of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate a common space on the Internet," Obama said in an interview conducted...
Britain urged to prosecute social media firms over online abuse Britain

Britain urged to prosecute social media firms over online abuse

December 13th, 2017 Social media companies should face prosecution for failing to remove racist and extremist material from their websites, according to a report by an influential committee. Prime Minister Theresa May's ethics watchdog recommends introducing laws to shift the liability for illegal content onto social media firms and calls for them to do...
Google broadens takedown of extremist YouTube videos Tech & Science

Google broadens takedown of extremist YouTube videos

November 14th, 2017 Alphabet Inc's Google in the last few months has begun removing from YouTube extremist videos that do not depict violence or preach hate, YouTube said on Monday, a major policy shift as social media companies face increasing pressure from governments. The new policy affects videos that feature people and groups that have been...
Facebook's Zuckerberg defends company after critical Trump tweet World

Facebook's Zuckerberg defends company after critical Trump tweet

September 28th, 2017 Facebook Inc's CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday defended his company's role in U.S. elections and rejected assertions in a tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump that the social network was against him. Zuckerberg has been on the defensive for weeks over revelations that Russian agents bought ads on Facebook and created fake accounts...
Facebook makes new bid for TV viewers with expanded video Tech & Science

Facebook makes new bid for TV viewers with expanded video

August 10th, 2017 Facebook Inc on Wednesday made its biggest move to date to compete in the television market by expanding its video offerings with programming ranging from professional women's basketball to a safari show and a parenting program. The redesigned product, called "Watch," will be available initially to a limited group in the United States...
Germany votes to fine social media over hate speech (Update) Europe

Germany votes to fine social media over hate speech (Update)

June 30th, 2017 The German parliament on Friday approved a plan to fine social media networks up to €50m if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly, despite concerns the law could limit free expression. Germany has some of the world's toughest laws covering defamation, public incitement to commit crimes and threats of violence, with prison...
Police caution parents about uploading children's photos Cyprus

Police caution parents about uploading children's photos

June 25th, 2017 With beach season in full swing, police on Sunday cautioned parents against uploading photos of their young children to social media where they can be stolen, altered and circulated on paedophile networks. "There are predators lurking online who at any moment can copy and keep these photos on their computers or alter them," a brief...
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